Long term followers of FoodsMatter will remember John Scott and his spectacularly successful interaction with parasitic hookworms. (From being virtually bedridden with ME, Crohn's Disease, migraine, restless legs and crippling rhinitis – and forced to live on elemental infant …
Helminthic therapy
In memoriam – Chris White aka Cartoon Christopher
Those of you who remember the FoodsMatter magazine may even remember this front cover – one of Christopher's more exuberantly wonderful send ups of our very serious content!! In this case one of John Scott's early articles about helminthic therapy – the use of parasitic worms to …
Telling the medical wheat from the chaff
Ten days ago I had an exchange with Dr Janice Joneja which illustrated yet again the problems faced by conventional practitioners when dealing with little understood conditions such as autism. Dr Joneja had had an email from a dietitian who had recommended her article on …
The worms march on
While medical allergists stress about reaction thresholds for allergens – indeed, whether it will ever really be possible to set the 'population levels' that allergic consumer and the food industry are asking for – the helminthic therapy community continues to grow and prosper. …
The weirdness of the human psyche
I have just been reading a report of a study on allergic rhinitis sufferers (35-40% of the US population). Despite the fact that immunotherapy has been around for nearly 100 years, is recognised as the best treatment for allergic rhinitis and is the only treatment which actually …